Cool seeing you in the internet historian video

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dad please make a video that involves aliens in some way again 🫦

The Version of this movie that was made in '79 was played in front of my class by our history Teacher. It feels weird that my libertarian arse already knows Something about this topic... When i watched your Video about Waco i went into it with zero previous knowledge.

yea, like we think serial killers are scarier because we simply cant comprehend the killing of 6 million people

Stalin quote

Some don't like to admit it but people only have so much empathy to go around. All the people around the world dying in wars right now will never mean as much to you as the loss of a good friend or family member.

Well it's sad to hear how they died but I don't know them so it doesn't matter to me

@@Tsunami5062this is such a sad and scary way to view another person’s death

id just put them out of it at that point, or at least id like to think i would. i dont think id wanna be in the face of someone dying, you either gotta be alive or dead, i wouldnt want to see the halfway stage

That scene has a parallel in a later Australian film, The Lighthorsemen, there's a Turkish soldier who is lung shot. Neither are the worst deaths I've seen but it definitely helps show the reasons why Paul and Dave turned against war.

Never enlist

What's even worse is that Paul had no idea the guy was naturally mute. It's bad enough to stab someone and then spend 10 hours apologizing for it to them. Let alone to think that they've chosen to die while giving you the silent treatment!

@@rumpled4skin271 that, I think was very key to the scene, actually. We can see how totally green Paul is to war and death and combat. It's hard to imagine a seasoned soldier doing anything but quickly and humanely ending the French soldier so he doesn't suffer needlessly. But Paul was essentially still a boy until he came out the other side of this experience.

You can thank Disney for that.

@@vinyldash2333Man got so mad that one of his IPs was stolen, that it would never happen again…guess what, it wouldn’t. For the detriment of the world, it wouldn’t.

​@theorangeoof926 I dont even think it was stolen. Mickey was supposed to go into the public domain for free use. He was never stolen. Just disney didn't want to lose their cash cow.

​@@TheWolfie234so according to Time Magazine: the version of Mickey with his iconic red design, so the one we see today, is still copyrighted but all the versions BEFORE that design are copyright free in most countries

​@@vinyldash2333The House of the Rat remember. A loathsome bunch, Disney.

The ways that help individual people cope with their trauma are very different and so was their way of handling trauma in general. I can imagine that the soldiers working on this movie had at least to some capacity managed to work through the worst of it and found it helpful for their own peace of mind to put this horrible knowledge to good use. But it certainly wasn't easy. The film itself was known to give veterans flashbacks precisely because it was so true to detail in so many aspects.

Watch Goodbye Uncle Tom. That’s so bad.

I think for some people, reliving their trauma could help them process and deal with the impact that it had on them. but im not educated on thd topic so i could be wrong

Some people ain't a bitch

My grandpa was in Vietnam

Time stamp?

@@rootsOfMadness15 18:16

Surrealism at it's finest

I noticed that too, I was like damn.. he looks like he's stoned and that hummus dip was the best thing ever. Chugging down a monster too. I'm surprised how much commentary he came up with when he had his eyes closed the whole time lmao

If KZfaq copyright is good for anything it's for creating that scene

One detail of that is one of the soldiers had/has horses on his farm back home, and the contrast of his horses being safe and happy and the horses being killed causes him stress. They also ended up putting the horses down after the bombardment ended.

Stress is an understatement, but I hope you see the point that his personal connection to horses added another layer to his pain over that situation.

@@bassingaminandshootin5 I do, and the fact that they had to sit and listen to the horses scream for fear that shooting them would give them away added even more. He loved horses and had to sit there and listen to that for I can’t remember how long until someone finally shot them. The book truly is the most horrifying piece of literature I’ve ever read

That point is so strong because the amount of horses that were killed during that war just boggles the mind. Let's not forget that horses were still a common sight in the streets during that time too. It's just another notion of how unsparing WW1 (and war in general) is.

Yeah, and they couldn't put the horses down for several minutes because they were taking cover from a bombardment. They had to sit there and listen to their agonizing screams and pray they didn't get bombs dropped on them. My imagination conjured up a very terrible scene in my mind. But the fact that this probably actually happened? That is the true horror.

1 hour long video essay: not transformative :/ eating hummus in the corner: yippies :D

@@undertowlil basically

I was hoping for the passive-aggressive consumption of Magic Spoon instead of hummus. Glad the vid got uploaded.

​@@Revikra same

BRO THE FUCKING EMOJI RUINED IT FOR ME 😂😂

@@Redd7206 IM SORRY 😂😅

I loved the new All Quiet on the Western Front movie overall, but I agree. Paul's death in that one and the last attack thing were my only two problems with it.

Wendigoon had to do that, because if he didn't, the KZfaq copyright authorities would kick him off again.

@melodie-allynbenezra8956 I'm sure he watched the video lol. Even with the context though, it's funny as hell!

no emotion whatsoever

​@@melodie-allynbenezra8956a

@@melodie-allynbenezra8956 its still funny asf lmfao

I cried twice watching this to be honest. First was during that scene, and second time was at the end with Paul's death. This whole movie is so powerful and I wish every person could see it and understand its message.

@@mishy. I had to stop watching at the first dudes death, my goodness it was gruesome even by my standards and I watch happy tree friends (one of the characters in one episode of happy tree friends got their face shoved into a grill)

Sad thing is, its probably truth. Most of the soldiers fighting at WW1 didnt really feel any hatred against the opposing soldiers, they all just wanted to get home. The christmas truce where all of them played soccer and genuinely had a nice time together is so sad to me, because it really shows you that they were just fighting because nonsense, and that they really couldve been friends.

⁠@@AnimaDwellerthis is kinda untrue I mean the Christmas truce only happened in the first year of the war and they only joined in festivities together in the British and German parts of the western front, the Belgians and French who were ya know occupied weren’t as happy to be nice to the Germans, it was stopped by the generals the next year yeah but additionally by the second year they had been exposed to poisonous gas and London had been bombed with zeppelins etc etc. But yeah no one really wanted the war although the Christmas truce is a bad example.

reminds me a lot of the poem The Man He Killed

That happens in every war and there's usually nothing overtly said,, just vague ideas about duty to the country and blah blah blah... I recommend the novel "bury him among kings," which deals with World War I and the insidious nature of the politics and propaganda behind wars even on the home front...... At one point the main character,, a junior officer in the British army remarks on seeing a poster in the streets of london, one of those War posters where there was a woman depicted standing on the shore of Britain, sending her son off to France with the exhortation, go lad, it's your duty.... And the character thinks, THIS was the poster the troops hated the worst, the one they never brought back from leave back to the front as a joke because how many mothers were there like this in reality? One would be too many, and another main character who is a professional and accomplished soldier comes to hate the backslapping at home,, his reason being that he was doing what he was ordered and he wasn't there for medals and none of them would be back slapping if they knew what he was doing in the trenches, up to his elbows in death...

This is the reality of some active duty soldiers. Their parents/spouses would glorify their deaths. My mom would have absolutely done that to me and it makes me sick to my stomach to think about.

I feel like it's a coping mechanism to think your child died for a higher purpose as opposed to dying for nothing or for another person's profits. Just easier to deal with it.

​@@shrimpy6519that's one thing another thing is actively trying to take a part into other children facing the same fate your daughter did

Still do that in north korea. They imprison like 3 generations of your family

That's horrible..

This is incorrect. Erich actually explained that she was involved in anti-government activities in 1943. Even quite far post-war, many in Germany considered her a traitor while very few thought that way of Erich.

please stop lying, that isn't what happened she was killed after being found out for anti governement activities. God nazis were bad but this insistence on lying about them needs to fucking stop

@@FaithRoxhow the f do people think of someone standing up to the Nazis as a traitor

@here is the full clip Nope.

Freaked me tf out

@Nemuri Kayama - Midnight it say its almost more horrifying

It's the best piece of anti-war literature ever written and the movie is an above average adaptation of the source, between it, Paths of Glory, and Breaker Morant it's really hard to justify what we do to one another, as all are heavily rooted in real events (though BM is depressingly viewed as in favour of the defendants who were guilty). The novel was actually banned nationally here in Australia because of it being "pacifistic".

it actually distressed me too, like there was no blood, but it was brutal

If they reacted the way the message intended then it'd put a major dent in recruiting for future wars. Hide the horror to keep it profitable.

Never a foot was placed on German soil. War is hell

The film covers those types with the teacher. No matter what they hear, they will denie it and attack and shun the people who speak the truth. It's not all that Ironic because the film specifically calls those people out.

@@goosefootjones7196 You know I see this sometimes from people who really like the Kaiserreich. Perhaps a little too much, though don't take that as a personal attack on you. I've always wondered how much that really mattered when a generation of young Germans were massacred in the war. And how much this would fuel one of the worst regimes in human history.

I refer people harping on excitedly about war or "frenchies waving the white flag" to this movie. A thing I noticed is, the closer you get to those former battlefields, the less you tend to encounter those types. And even a simple visit can sometimes make the person "click". Places like Ypres, Verdun, the beaches of Normandy, the death camps of ww2... They carry something. And the people around there, often descendents of those who suffered, have something to them as well. The effects of war, a a certain sense of disillusionment, follows them accross generations.

Well yeah,, if a guy tells you he DIDN'T either piss his pants or just stood frozen or SOMETHING when an artillery shell lands around you is either lying or completely insane... Like with the soldier general Patton slapped,, it's pointless to have a guy who can't handle artillery at the front so you want them BACK from the front line where he can still do his job...

I found myself questioning the French sniper, for killing a man reaching for a butterfly.

​@mikoto7693 he was clearly threatening him with a bazooka.

@@mikoto7693 me too, but he probably wasnt paying much attention to what paul was doing and was more focusing on getting the shot

This is literally a vibe .

bros HUNGY

I swear at one point I thought it was a loop 😂

Literally embodies the people who type "lol" or "lmao". Who are usually deadpan.

I think its so it can pass as critisism when he shows the film with audio. Critisism as its so boring he just eats with a bored expression.

A good 100 years ahead of it’s time. Actually it’s timeless, war never changes this film will always be important :(

Anything halfway good is beyond its time, according to any web dweller.

The term ‘War never changes’ is wrong. The horrors of war though, does not.

Most halfway good films set trend and are then ahead of their time so yes you are absolutely right

@@rogue_2k374 indeed, tactics and weapons change every day, but the horror doesn't

thank u for your service brother this movie is so heartbreaking i cannot begin believe what thats like

And to think that the same things happen this very minute; second even.... is truly terrifying. How the USA, Germany, UK, etc. spend thousands of billionds of Euros on Killing-Machines to send to the Ukraine; only to further prolong a war that has no goal and therefore willingly cause thousands of deaths every week, every day, to continue with no end in sight. We should all be out on the streets, demanding the industry-leaders and those who benefit ti seize any operation immidiately of face the wrath of entire populations. If a government is not willing to step back from war, and therefore WILLINGLY acting against the interest and safety of the population, they should immidiately be liable to loss of power and face public justice. But no. That is further from reality as it has ever been. We, as humans, have learned NOTHING from WW1 and WW2. Education has failed and history WILL repeat itself.... albeit probably even worse. I can only hope that those who made great efforts to glorify War (in the USA after WW2 was over; back when the USA staged multiple attacks on US citizens to finally have the necessary legal grounds for armed combat and even today, with the millitary financing a majority of the yearly Call of Duty development and in return ensure that War is depicted as heroic, fun and suuuuper cool in these games; , will still be alive once It's time and they slowly realize that their actions played a large part in his/her grandchildren and further generations to live in a destroyed world without food or uncontaminated water.

The worst part for me was his scream and the fact that he didn't see anything before he died. But especially tide scream really it sounded like something straight up from an horror film.

I saw this video and said to myself: "Well I have some time spare so why not see it", the film was great, after watching it I can see the inspiration from the 1917 film, like I watched the ancestor of 1917.

This comment has 1.2K likes yet only one comment below it?! Someone's using "comment likes" bot farms lol.

Thank you for the additional insight about the butterflies. Appreciate it! : )

@@truthhurts2879 you keep appearing under peoples comments saying this same thing. Wendigoons channel has a lot of people who just like comments and don’t comment. It’s just a quirk of his channel.

Yeah, I was bored and thought ‘you know I haven’t watched anything of Wendigoon’s for a bit. Let’s see what he’s got’ and I got traumatized. Fun.

Yeah this book has so so many harrowing and memorable moments. Like one where someome told paul not to eat too much because when you get stabbed by bayonet it's harder to treat the wound. That scene stuck with me.

very accurate, ww1 studyer here

Some say he's still trapped in that cave, sitting in total darkness while spitefully eating hummus on a face cam...

hasanabi covered this last night, wendigoon made it :’)

😂😂😂😂 couldn’t finish the video. Terrified me.

Wait im so sorry if im just slow but what do you mean by “he got trapped in a sand cave for 15 days straight”?????? Is that like something at the end of the video?

@@wigglewiggle4201 Look up Internet Historian.

Kat died tho :(

“He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.”

just like war

Why do i recognize your name?

@@wayacrazy. idk, are you an mcr fan? It has nothing to do with my name, but they have the true lives of the fabulous killjoys album

One of my favorite quotes from MASH

Wars do not determine who is right, only who is left.

@@kagekun1198 Fallout 3 reference

That's always been my opinion. Its worse than hell (if it even exists), because there are no innocent people in hell....

@@TheSkyGuy77 Depending on the perception of God and how He lets people into hell, there may very much be innocent people in Hell.

All hail the magic spoon boxes🙌

@griffy bot

@Newcious bot

He goes crazy and starts building a giant man creature made out of magic spoon boxes, makes a national park inside of it, and then when the park goes under hide it by building a national monument over it.

@@critespranberry8872 brother, if that’s crazy, I don’t want to be sane.

Makes perfect sense and I agree. It’s always been ”germany bad” when most of these people actually going to war are just as innocent as everyone else

The typical us versus them shit people still believe in.

That's exactly right and many novels deal with the situation from the British point of view,, Bury Him Among Kings is excellent and includes a conscientious objector who resists military service simply because he's not temperamentally suited to the role and doesn't figure he ought to go and die just to please the people around him... And while the whole thing examines widely differing points of view from the different characters there's the sense that the only people who really wanted the war to go on were people whose political objectives were being satisfied and people too dumb to know any better, which unfortunately included a lot of the soldiers who really couldn't tell you one way or another what any of it was about..

Most people mad at it at the time were other Germans.

This scene is also in the new Netflix adaptation of the film and its very sobering and moving. The new adaptation as a whole is extremely good.

@@lazy_lefty yeah, it's a lot more directly gory, but they really made it a horror movie, especially with how it's shot and the soundtrack. But yeah it's one of the few remakes that I have seen recently that managed to keep the original message and is pretty good

this scene also shows up as an opener in the Ukranian metal band 1914s "100 Days Offensive." If you want to hear a musical attempt to describe the horror of WW1, try them out. I also recommend their songs "...and a cross now marks his grave" , "A7V" , and their covers of "Something in the way" and "the green fields of France"

And the mute actor really puts an underlying message to it

There was one account from a French soldier, running up some stairs up a bridge to meet advancing Germans. Met the lead man of thr group who raised his rifle to fire, just a boy, like the French man telling the story at the time. They had an identical expression, excitement and thrill of combat. The french soldier noted that the German soldier looked like he could've been a friend of his from college. The German soldier would never get to fire his gun, as the French soldier impaled him clean through the chest with his bayonet. Twist it, and kick him to the ground, dead. The rest of the column of German soldiers would be decimated by rifle fire. But the French soldier said that seeing the whole line of Germans gunned down was nothing in comparison to that young boy, he was within an arms reach, and their eyes met eachother as he killed him. He said he watched as the boy's expression turned from one of excitement to one of terror as the bayonet peirced his chest, the immense pain and grimace as he twisted it, and finally sadness and anguish, the tears that fell from his eyes, he said it probably hit him at that moment he'd never see his family again as the French soldier tore his life away. He saw vividly all these emotions go through this boy his own age in this 7 second exchange that haunted him the most

"it will be fun they said"

Ummmm yea like EVERY WAR SINCE TIME BEGAN. Christ you …..can’t think it’s ONLY this one? nowadays they can’t hide it like that BUT somehow IT STILL HAPPENED in the 1st AND 2nd desert storm! So……

Propaganda is a hell of a drug, man…

It keeps happening. Look at all those big Hollywood movies using actual army equipment and soldiers as extras. Top Gun remake is a good example of it. Making it look all romanticized, fun, heroic and badass

Reminds me of what niko bellic says in gta 4: "war is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other"

Didn’t learn though, was in another war within a decade of the movie.

​@Ishbikes the Nazis actively suppressed the movie because they were exactly what the movie was criticizing. The ones who glorify war. And so they tried again, and failed again to gain glory to their country. All they achieved was a butchery on a scale that dwarfed even the war that was supposed to end all wars.

as someone who has hundred hours studying ww1 accurate its terrible terrible terrible

In war too many good sons, fathers, and husband's never come home 😔

I swear I have a friend that would be laughing through that and I’m starting to think he is a psychopath 😂

@@GeorgeWockington01 what the fuck

@@GeorgeWockington01 my entire history class laughed at the D-day scene in Saving Private Ryan. Specifically when one soldier was holding his guts in and screaming "MOMMA!" Don't worry, everyone is a little psychotic lol

I've heard of many soldiers experience this. It's one of the things that makes the transition back into civilian life really hard.

@@MrFredstt why did you use that emoji?

@@savary5050 I have no idea. I made my comment on PC and didn't use an emoji but I'll edit it

It's true. I still like the things from before deployment, but doing those things seems trivial\worthless\childish.

Man thats cruel

🙏

You say ignorant when they are fully aware of what they do

yeah those guys knew what they were doing.

@@TheMinuteman ignorant of what would actually be better for people

The politicians are not ignorant of anything. They just want young people to die for them. They know exactly what they are doing.

@@choco5 But not better for themselves.

I'm so sorry for what you went through. Thank you for sharing your experience.

Sorry to hear that and i hope you have recovered from any and all sickness and injuries, in desperate times, you can't be blamed for trying to survive. If stealing is how you eat because there's no other way you can't be blamed for living.

Blame your parents. You should've evacuated.

@@darkerdaemon7794 no use blaming. I lived and it sucks to have gone through, and I get irrationally angry at food waste, but I am alive. Blame doesn't make it better.

@@cathycat4989 Anger and other emotions are good, believe it or not. Despite the tendency for people to equate emotions with weakness nowadays, we all get them and have them whether we like to admit it or not. Even the most stone cold psychopathic killer in the world still gets emotions. In fact I'd say it's that high of feeling something that leads most serial repeat offenders into doing it but I digress... Emotions are only bad if you misuse or don't know how to use them. For a lack of understanding them even, as most refuse to even look at them and their causality, preferring to ignore the thing that triggers them instead of addressing it and understanding it. Doing this is the real tragedy and misuse of them. Usually when we are angry we have a right to be even if we don't realize it yet. Even if our right isn't right, there's always a reason for it. And it's only by looking at these reasons that we can determine whether or not it is misplaced or not. This is what makes the difference between a thing being blame and or warranted factual truth. You lived so it might be alright in your eyes now but it doesn't change the fact your parents put you and your entire families lives in danger for little more than selfish main character syndrome.

Same honestly

What. The. Fuck

Thats tuff

Yeah my great grandad got a big smoking habit after ypres

* *Young men.*

One relative was the Catholic chaplain who served under August von Mackenson and was the last German POW to be released another was gassed by the Germans while serving in the lost battalion. My grandfather’s uncle spent the rest of his life in and out of mental hospitals. My pop has told me about how he would dive for cover whenever he heard my grandfather shoot a cap gun.

wow! an almost identical thing happened to my great grandfather in WW2. he was shot in the chest right where the pocket he kept his cigarette box in was. knocked him over but he escaped with just a huge bruise. he always talked about how once he was safe all he wanted was a smoke, but the tin was totally melted and his hands were too shaky to hold a cigarette anyway. he ended up dying of lung cancer due to smoking but had he never picked up the habit he wouldn't have even seen 30.

@@Ashley-ub8sj No way, that’s crazy! Now I’m wondering how many soldiers had this same thing happen to them. Thanks for sharing your story and sorry to hear about your great grandfather passing.

Something somewhat similar happened to my great grandpa, when he returned to his home state of kentucky for a short time he was given a knit hat by one of the people living there. In battle he wore the hat under his helmet, he was shot in the head, the bullet went through the helmet and was just barely stopped by the hat.

I had a friend in the Australian Army who was behind an M-113 which was driven poorly, went off the road and flipped- driver decapitated.

@@matthewn557 The person who gave your great grandpa the hat was a real MVP.

“I was gonna join the navy, but a movie stopped me from joining.” 🐓

You can still join but always remember war is ugly not glorious.

​@@jrsthesedays925bootlicker

@@jrsthesedays925people who join the military or either poor or stupid. Often both, like yourself.

In my opinion, it is not. Watched the Netflix adaptation after watching this video and I could barely tell what was going on throughout the movie. No character development, no introspection, and every character felt the same and nothing made them stand out from each other. Sure, the movie looks pretty and it covered some themes like the hubris of "honor", the corruption of leadership, and the horrors of war, but the movie says almost nothing about the bigger picture the source material is trying to convey. Only one short scene at the start about the facade of "honor and patriotism" the media props up to quell the populace during the war. None of the discrimination that the main character endures when they come back a "coward" (other than a throwaway line from one of the German commanders). There's no proper setup for "civilian life" until we're thrown into the trenches literally before the first 20 minutes into the movie. That movie should not have been titled "All Quiet on the Western Front", because it is a poor adaptation of the source material.

The character development was intentionally made like that so Paul represents the everyday kid who got swept up by the propaganda and goes to war for the country

@@keilanl1784 Im sorry but you are incorrect

@@keilanl1784 I also have to dissagree, The main characters development was amazing.. A regular gun hoe innocent kid all hyped for war gets a grim reality check. By the end of the movie he's just a shell of his former self.

@@bebus6884 you can't just say his opinion is outright wrong like it is opinion. Also try to add why you don't agree with him instead you are wrong because i say so.

ew these replies are botted to heck in back I wouldn't call the film the most disturbing (like in the video's title), but it might be one of the most excellent pieces of cinema in history. It's nearly a hundred years old, and still holds up Given it holds up partly because of its age, but still I agree, great shots all over, even today. I can't imagine what it was like for first audiences.

@@xiphactinusaudax1045 Well said. I think another aspect that I hadn’t previously considered but adds a whole new morbid layer is the fact that a lot of the extras were actual veterans of the Great War. Imagine the amount of nightmares revisited as they went about filming😢

@@AbhNormal Yeah, extras being PLAYED by veterans actually felt kind of unnecessary to me. I can understand wanting input on the production, but there had to have been extreme shellshock-related difficulties during the filming process Respect goes out to them for not only experiencing war and its horrors, and coming back, and reliving trauma just so they could spread the message

I know this is completely off-topic but is that a Half-Life fan I can see?

I imagine for the veterans working on this project it was a way to stop the cycle of war. At the time we know it wasn’t common for people to be taken seriously when they talked about their own experiences. I’d like to think that this was in some was therapeutic to them. Or that is my personal take on why actual ww1 vets may have helped in the project. There have been similar types of projects (people who have actually been in the middle of traumatic events) helping to explain it so that they can be prevented even today. Sorry for a years late comment- it’s my first time seeing the video.

Came to my mind too, suggested it here. One of the hardest movies I've ever watched. 😢

LANDMINES HAVE TAKEN MY SIGHT

@@jakebateman1035TAKEN MY SPEECH

​@@user-gr8uz6mn3t TAKEN MY HEARING

That's more a horror story than a war movie,, the real horror is the legs and arms and faces and etc that are much more common and JGHG is a perfect cautionary tale about overconfidence in any area of life but yeah especially about such a predictable folly as war...

Jesus that's probably gonna be in the remake

Back when I was in 5th grade I read a book called “Stones in water”, which was about the holocaust. That book still lives rent free in my head many years later. So messed up

Agreed. That line was absolutely hollowing. Another line that stuck with me was when Paul watched a Frenchman fall on barbed wire and had his arms shot off, leaving them in a prayer position.

The brain is gone but the signals still going

I think there was a moment like that told in Toni Morrison's Sula

I'm very grateful that my World Literature teacher had us read this book. She was an immigrant to the U.S. from Lithuania and escaped WWII. I recall her crying in class as we discussed certain parts of the book.

Reading a book for its quotable lines is exactly like not seeing the forest for the trees.

@@private755 how do you infer his motivation was to quote memorable lines?

@@private755 he never said he read the book just for quotes, he didn’t imply it either

Can I ask you questions about being a soldier for the US in modern age?

I went to military school otherwise I might have joined up. I was a senior during nine eleven. My best friend joined up. When he got back six years later we weren't friends anymore. We tried. We still pretend. He just can't anymore. Instead he sees the world through the bottom of a bottle.

I was 17 when I became an Airman I never wanted nor cared about the glory and glamour I just wanted to do my part like the rest of my family going back to the American Civil War and get on with my life.

@@gilly_axolotl absolutely. Fire away.

That's why we quit, got the honorable and never looked back. Not worth it.

What do you even mean by they suffer the same death

@@coachman1532 The death of their chance for tranqulity in life. They can't catch the butterfly.

I like to think when Paul dies, he dies in a thoughtful moment of peace, as he understands the war has run its course, that he had felt the brunt of the anguish of war so others would see the horrors of what had happened and not allow for it again. Perhaps he dies in peace because he knows the ones who knew him would learn just what he had gone through, teaching his people just how big of a mistake they had made by allowing for war. Paul feels he served a duty to the world as he dies, so the future generations don’t have to suffer like they did in this war.

Those that died arguably received a more merciful end to the war, nothing screams anti-war louder than pictures of soldiers with artillery/bullet wounds and are still alive to look at the camera. I read that for some of these men, even their children screamed at the sight of their own fathers and ran.

Not only german speaking countries. I'm lithuanian and here we either read Nothing new on the western front or Remarque's Three friends (which is not the right book to explain the effects of war on the psyche of a soldier to 15-16 year olds imo) in our lithuanian class depending on either the professor's opinion on which book is better used in exam essays (as that's how our classes end up being structured sadly) or based on the constant changes in the recommended book curriculum

@@miglek9613 Really interesting! Thanks for sharing

standard in English speaking countries too - this was 15 years ago but it was part of the curriculum in my high school English honors class in Missouri. we read the book, watched the 1930 movie, and learned a very little bit about the contemporary reactions in both Germany and the US and iirc we had a few assignments that asked us to compare and contrast to modern (or late 2000s, post 9/11 america) antiwar and pro-war media

German class was when I first read it and the book stayed with me. Years later I read it again and the impact was the same.

Never heard anything about the book in my German lessons, or at all as a matter of fact. Was it standard reading lecture before 2010 or is there any other reason why I never heard about it?

wendigoon enjoying his hummus seemingly nonchalant was really the only thing that stopped me from brawling out a few times

I wish I could cry more (often) during sad parts. I’m jealous of my big brother in that respect. He cries at easier parts in films that I don’t find so sad yet.

⁠@@FlubberFrosch I didn’t know crying was a competition lol

@@rockino2562 I don‘t need to cry more than he does, I just want to have more tears than I do now. That way the sad parts are more satisfying to experience.

​@@FlubberFroschI know exactly what you mean. Having a good cry and being able to cry is therapeutic in a way haha

niko is such an underrated gta character

​@@luau_lmao3295Niko is easily the most realistic GTA character. Sure the other protagonists are good, but Niko truly has a human level of complexity to his actions.

Tell him I said happy early birthday!

@@XwX1001 Thank you! He'll appreciate that. He is still living on his own, no nursing home etc needed.

@@margeebechyne8642 Nice! Reminds me of my grandad, actually. He's in his 80's or 90's too, but he's still doing reasonable well and still living in his own house.

@@XwX1001 Awesome!

He must have so many stories to tell at that age, I wish both you and him many good moments together!

Exactly

Life is like a game of poker. Some are luckier than others, some are smarter than the other, and sometimes when the cards are drawn, the victors are already decided.

The funny thing is that the teacher does get drafted, but only into the equivalent of the home guard (I don't know if Wendigoon mentions this or if it's even in the movie). One of Paul's classmates is actually higher ranked and makes the teacher's life misery as payback. (I think it was for Behm/Ben.) As for the question about manipulation... ever seen Call of Duty or any of the more grandiose war movies? There's a lot of that stuff (even the "paying for college" could be considered a tactic). If you want anti-war games, check out Spec Ops The Line. It's a lot more modern (much closer to the modern day) and just as brutal.

this is why wendigoon is hype, man talks about horrors of humanity but in such a real, often juxtaposingly hilarious with the joys of small life.

For real. And the fact that it happens so suddenly just shows the futility of it. According to the war, he is just more meat for the grinder, instead of a human being

Another year

@complete video here you people annoy me

I agree. That scene made a huge impact on me. I can't imagine enlisting into a war out of reluctance, then being blinded and killed when running the wrong way💔

@Emotional Damage what horrible fucking people/bots

I just wanted to respond to your specific comment because it absolutely shatters my heart. I, at one point, wanted to join the military. After three days of very little sleep and a sudden schedule change, i gave up. I only wanted to join so i could be a mindless zombie. I didn’t want to have to think. Some time down the road, i’d spent a study hall period collecting quotes from people who were in, or family members of people in the military. They were horrific, dehumanizing, and wildly depressing. I wanted to thank you for doing something you thought was right. It’s not my place, but i am so sorry that it turned out to be a flaming shit show. I’m sorry you had to find out the hard way. I don’t know how long you were in there, but you were there long enough to understand. That alone is too long. The military is something I have an extreme distaste for, and it destroys me to know how many people get sucked into it and either don’t come back at all, or come back completely different human beings. The mental illness cocktails they give these people fills me with rage i can barely comprehend. I’m just rambling now, but again, thank you. I wish it wasn’t like this.

@Jerry May mostly same i was a 0311 2008 to 12. Semper fi brother.

imagine joining the military not knowing that you're going to kill innocent civilians. lmao you deserved it

​@ThyPeasantSlayer Сейчас в армии хватает должностей на которых быть на фронте не надо, но так как ты скорее всего из России, я бы не советовал связывать свою жизнь с этим делом. Военный гос комплекс тут ужасный: вне зависимости от чинов и званий, за любую осечку тебя или уволят, или посадят, или все равно кинут на фронт, как пушечное мясо.

One of the first military rifles I bought was a ww1 Gew. 98. It was a cheap purchase from a friend of a friend, I never thought about it much. After I watched All Quiet on the Western Front, I sat down and took apart the Mauser and gave it the cleaning it deserved. Like most of the things I have bought, I will never know the man who used it, but I can hope it took care of him when he needed ot most.

The worst part is, not enough people comprehend it, it will happen again.

A book that did that for me was Lucifer principle by Howard Bloom. Almost every chapter makes you want to do that.

End of Evangelion’s one of those.

How old were you when you read it? Because my class had to read through it in 7th grade, needless to say it left quite the impression.

I also read the book and that was one of the things that struck to me the most. And the horses.

Boots is kinda funny when ya hear about kids killing each other for their shoes. I'd probably be easier to steal some but they saw them right there right now on their side of the street. So they just took them. Two dogs pissing on the same tree scales all the way up to people and nations. We get involved soon as we also think it's our tree.

@@jayeisenhardt1337 damn was that also in the book?

A reading wich was even harder for me was Private Peaceful. The tone is dark, sure, but I kept putting myself at the place of the character, and what I thought about what I would think or say in the situation was said or thought 3 lines later. I realised "I am Charlie Peaceful. I would have genuinely been in those trenches. I would have been hated like him for lying to my family. I probably would have died like him." It's a special kind of feeling to read a book and then realise that one of the character is you, word for word, thought for thought. All the complexity of your being is accurately portrayed in those pages. This book gave me a true feeling of emptiness after ( spoilers ahead ) Charlie, the character in question is executed for treason. I knew at that moment that I would have died, and I couldn't have had my dying wish of fully singing "I am a poor wayfairing stranger" one last time and refuse the blindfold.

What's the book called?

it’s an amazing adaptation! best anti war movie and probably the best thing netflix has put out imo

It even silenced Paul!

same, watched it in our social studies class. absolutely disturbed

@@theblackswordsman5039 too soon 😭💀

dear lord, that movie......

That movie was absolutely horrifying, i did not need to be reminded of it again

Saw it and I must say it is uncomfortable but when I was about 10 I saw the Michael J Fox film Casualties of War and that is just depressing as hell. I didn’t get the gRape scene but I always figured it was just beatings and brutality of a villager. The train tracks scene had scared me for some time. I saw Come and See and yea I can also vividly remember this film but at my age I’ve been desensitized to horrors of war (seen a bunch on the internet) the cow didn’t need to die by gun fire. Waste of good food. :(

Come and see is just propaganda. Soviets did just as much evil acts

@@z0mbie.bl00d people tend to forget

poor man , sounds like my grandfathers story but from vietnam. good man. horrible trauma reshaped him. he’s at peace too

My grandfather fought in the battle of Kursk and his brother in the battle of stalingrad of all places, he had a similar experience with my mom where he literally did not speak for years and always looked like he was about to cry, he couldnt look at anything related to military (which was hard as a russian) or he would throw up The only time he started to open up was when me and my siblings started to grow up, but he still was clearly not ok. I guess he at least knew that he had to do it, as what the (Nasssis) where planning to do to any slav was already well know. But still, i cannot imagine what a person would have to go thought to have such traumas.

All these grizzled old men we see, were young kids who played games and came running in to dinner when mom called. At one time.

My grandpa opened up to me after I joined the army as his dementia was developing. He had a similar story with his family, I just wish these men had more support after everything they went through because I could tell he needed, at the very least, an outlet to talk about the things he did and saw.

He was young enough that he had to lie about his age, but he was already married? Did he marry at 17?

I think they still get all the money but at least the video gets posted

@Emotional Damage he has been trying to post the video for the past 6 hours

@@SirEggo2412 it's a bot genius

@@SirEggo2412 I wish down votes on comments still worked.

@Emotional Damage of course there are bots

The book is totally worth reading. It takes a bit to get into it, but once you're invested in the characters it's like watching a train wreck. Just one shitty thing after the other and you sail through the last 2/3rds of the read.

It's a true classic.... I hope you get to read it!!!

A lot of the returning soldiers were broken men returning to a broken nation. The anti-war sentiment of veterans plus the questions of precisely WHY the war was waged is what ultimately led to radical politics, particularly fascism in Europe. Those guys really went through it.

read Storm of Steel

We do this to our children because it is very profitable to have colonies. For the ruling class, anyway. Ultimately, that was the source of conflict in the world wars (which might have been more accurately named the imperialist wars, since they were fought between capitalist powers.) Even today, just look at America; Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, but they had plenty of nationalized industries that western companies could use to "expand." Our government is also owned by corporations, including weapons manufacturers, which is why we invaded and stayed in Afghanistan, and that is why Republicans pissed and shit themselves over withdrawing.

I like whenever he shows the scenes of him watching he’s like “I was so moved” and he’s just munching away in the next clip lol

Hahaha

“passively aggressive hummus munching KZfaqr” lmaooo 😂

@@invaderzim6904 lol ikr

@Sky L exactly

"We are at the end of an era where the great war becomes only a memory of a time long behind us, with nobody left to tell new stories" A tragedy in and of itself. This is why humanity continues to make these same mistakes and always will.

@@harley4230 I don’t think we even have the motivation to fight we too busy tik tok dancing

@@moosesues8887 as scary a thought as tik tok dancing being what potentially stops any future wars is, I'd much rather that than the genocides that war always brings.

@@SpectralLumo new gen finna be so soft and I ain’t complaining cus we ain’t getting a ww3 anytime soon

Surviving Stalingrad must've been probably the worst times a human being could experience id imagine

that sounds nauseating to even imagine

Man that reminded me of that one soldier in the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan. With soldiers holding body parts and that one kid yelling for his mom while he's holding his intestines in his stomach.

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